Canada

Hotels that celebrate the arts, history and the best in local food and drink – as well as one that’s on an island – ensure a stay in the bustling city on Canada’s west coast is a smart, chic and restful one

UK artist Simon Beck creates detailed geometrical designs in the snow using just a compass, a plan and a pair of snowshoes. This snowflake image – his largest drawing to date, and 450 metres in size, from tip to tip – was composed on Peyto Lake in Banff, Canada’s oldest national park

They breed them tough in Québec City, where the mercury rarely creeps above -6C in winter and the small matter of the mighty St Lawrence river icing over didn't stand in the way of the region's early settlers and their canoes. That's why every winter for the past 60 years at the Québec Winter Carnival, crews of five athletes slide, scramble and row through the ice floes in a race from Québec City to Lévis

Paul Zizka takes photos of himself in the wilderness in Canada. He began photographing night scenes but began adding himself into the shot to create a relationship between the central figure in the image and the nature around him.